Gentoo: 200410-18 Regular Update: Ghostscript Symlink Vulnerability
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October 20, 2004
Multiple scripts in the Ghostscript package are vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files with the rights of the user running th...
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-18
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Ghostscript: Insecure temporary file use in multiple
scripts
Date: October 20, 2004
Bugs: #66357
ID: 200410-18
Synopsis
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Multiple scripts in the Ghostscript package are vulnerable to symlink
attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary
files with the rights of the user running the script.
Background
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Ghostscript is a software package providing an interpreter for the
PostScript language and the PDF file format. It also provides output
drivers for various file formats and printers.
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